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Foreword: The Challenge of New Paradigms for Bible Study . . . . . .vii Robert M. Fowler 1. This is not a Bible: Dispelling the Mystique of Words for the Future of Biblical Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 A. K. M. Adam 2. Digital Media as Cultural Metaphor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Robert S. Fortner 3. Entering Sacred Digital Space: Seeking to Distinguish the Dreamer and the Dream . . . . . . . . . . . .49 Richard Thieme 4. The Second Coming of Holy Writ: Niche Bibles and the Manufacture of Market Segments . . . . . . . . .71 Mark Fackler 5. Packaging the Word, Peddling Holy Writ: Canongate and their Pocket-sized Bibles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 R. S. Sugirtharajah 6. "Hidden in Plain View": Postcolonial Interrogations, a Poetics of Location, and African American Biblical Scholarship . . . . . . . . . .113 Abraham Smith 7. Finding a Home for Ruth: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Otherness . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137 Kwok Pui-lan front.qxd 8/14/03 12:51 AM Page v 8. Bible Translation and Ethnic Mobilization in Africa . . . . . . . . . . .157 Lamin Sanneh 9. Evangelicals and the Bible: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow . . . .185 John G. Stackhouse, Jr. 10. The Bible and Popular Culture: Engaging Sacred Text in a World of Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209 Mary E. Hess 11. Rethinking Local Bible Study in a Postmodern Era . . . . . . . . . .227 Randy G. Litchfield Afterword: Between the Past and What Has Nearly Arrived . . . . .251 Martin E. Marty